EDL 522 Human Resources

Welcome to EDL 522. As part of the requirements for this course you will be required to post comments to this blog after every class session. These comments should be a reflection of the readings, lectures, guest speakers, activities, or discussions that occurred during the day.

I hope you enjoy the class and I will do my best to share with you the theoretical and practical lessons that you will need to be a successful school administrator.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Data, Data, Data

One of the most beneficial aspects of this class has been the looking at the data. In today's educational world we are driven by data and we should be. We should be constantly be looking at data to better understand where are students are at and where we are headed so that the proper decsions can be made. I do not think we can effectively have any impact on student achievement if we are not looking at the data the students are provifing us. Instead, without the data we are essentially shooting blindly at the problem. Therefore looking at the data and analyizing the anomolies in the data have been very benefical to me and I am sure it has also been very beneficial to the many other students in the class.
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benellefritz said...

I am glad that Dr. CLosen has made a committment to looking at data in this class. I know that sometimes it is a mind numbing task, but very beneficial. As a whole I think schools do a good job of looking at the data and a poor job of doing anything with it. We have to continually be looking at data and it should drive everything we do and everything we teach.

February 24, 2008 at 6:07 AM

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